Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!  Y’know sometimes when you do something which is just straight-out cool, and you know you’re gonna remember for the rest of your life?  Well, that!
I read on the HIGHLY EXCELLENT “Ian Visits” blog that it’s possible to arrange to take a tour of the Clock Tower at the Houses of Parliament, and that sounded to me like a fine and excellent thing to do so – following the instructions – I contacted my local Member for Parliament and made the relevant request (the instructions are here: more info below).  …

Recently somebody asked me how I got into morris dancing. Well, I recognise a decent opportunity for a blog post when I see one…

Prompted by events which I don’t really recall, my learned colleague and co-mastermind Paul sent me off on a retrospective journey thinking about the various mobile phones I’ve owned in my life, and I thought it might be interesting (in this case possibly exploring new extremes in the definition of “interesting”) to record the results here for your reading pleasure.  By which I mean MY reading pleasure, as I’m still not convinced there’s anyone else out there reading this.
I thought I was a little late to the party as far …

Tolerance is a beautiful and commendable thing. There should be more of it – if there were I’m sure the world would be a better place. However we’re never going to reach such an ideal & placid utopian existence so long as the British Government fail to send out teams of exterminators to rid to world of bloody DAWDLERS, SPREADERS, STOPPERS and SWITCHERS.
At the risk of infringing on Oli’s sacred blogging material, I cannot go another day without underlining my contempt for these 4 subgroups of the pedestrian …

Whooooa boy oh boy oh boy – what a way to go, eh ?
In order to get rid of my fairly extensive collection of Scotch, I decided to get a few people who have a deep & moving love for the stuff around to my place, as well as a few choice nibbles, and just let everyone try as much of whatever they wanted as was available.(Click here for larger photo)

The assembled whiskies were a fairly imposing visage – initially I was worried that there wasn’t going to be enough, …